Neurosurgery

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Thyroid gland

The major structures of the midbrain include all the fallowing, EXCEPT:

Astrocytes

The most common type of neuroglia, fills the spaces between the neurons.

Cell

The neuron is the _________ type of the nervous system located throughout the body.

Spinal nerves

A foraminotomy is performed to relieve pressure on the:

Lamina

A lumbar laminectomy is perfomed to access the lumbar spinal cord and remove a portion of the lumbar:

Facial

A motor nerve that controls the muscle in the face and scalp

Trigeminal

A sensory nerve that controls the sensation of the face, forehead, mouth, nose, and top of head

Mayfield

A special overhead__________ table may be used in place of a mayo stand.

Telfa

All of the fallowing are patient position devices, except:

Clippers,combs,and sterile marking pen

Before incision, most surgeons will request some hair removal and a skin marking agent for cranial surgery. Ideally, the circulator nurse should use or have:

Oculomotor

Control muscle that moves the eyes and iris

Vestibulocochlear

Controls hearing and equilibrium

abducens

Controls lateral movement of the eye

trochlear

Controls the oblique muscle of the eye

glossopharyngeal

Controls the sense of taste.

Optic

Conveys impulses for sight

Weitlaner

During a craniectomy, whay types of retractors are used to retract thebskin flap?

Horseshoe

During a craniotomy, the patient is positioned using a ___________ headrest or pin fixation.

Topical thrombin

During a microdiscectomy, gelfoam pledgets arebsoaked in:

Steri strips and Dermabond

During a microdiscectomy, the wound edges are approximated with:

Tubular

During a microdiscectomy, what type of retractor is used?

Patients head

Gardner-Wells tongs may be used to secure:

accessory

Has two parts, a cranial portion and a spinal portion

Bench chair

In what position is the patient placed for a craniectomy?

hypoglossal

Innervates the muscle of the tongue

vagus

Innervates the pharyngeal and laryngeal muscles, heart, pancreas, lungs,and digestive systems

Frontal

One _________ bone provides structure for the forehead and orbits.

Occipital

One __________ bone provides structure to the back of the skull and portion of the floor of the cranium.

olfactory

Responsible for the sense of smell

Cottonoids

Small, square, felt sponges made of cotton or rayon to control bleeding on neural and vascular tissue are referred to as:

Cerebellum

The _________ is also known as the hindbrain.

Dendrites

The __________ carry nerves impulses toward the cell.

Axon

The ___________ carries nerve impulses away from the cell.

Brainstem

The _____________ is also known as the midbrain.

Skin

The pericranium is the periosteal layer of the skull bones. It is covered with all the fallowing, EXCEPT:

Axon

The__________ carry nerve impulses away from the cell

Cerebrum

The___________ is also known as the forebrain.

5

There are _______ lumbar vertebrae

12

There are ____________ thoracic vertebrae.

Temporal

Two _________ bones are on either side of the skull, which contribute to the structure for the sides of the cranium.

Parietal

Two __________ bones on either side of the skull provide structure for the sides and roof of the cranium.

Bipolar

What type of ESU is used during a craniotomy?

Key

What type of periosteal elevator is used to free the muscle during a craniectomy?

Peripheral

_____________ nerves are composed of small bundles of nerves fibers, called fasciles, which are surrounded by a sheath called the endoneurium.


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